Emma Stone, who won for Best Actress for La La Land, reacted to the press after the event. The Hollywood Reporter posted a video of Emma saying that while winning Best Picture would have been great, she and the La La Land cast and crew were happy for Moonlight.

"Of course, it was an amazing thing to hear La La Land, and I think we would have all loved to win Best Picture, but we are so excited for Moonlight, I think it's one of the best films of all time, so I was pretty beside myself."

Pia Wurtzbach, who had a similar experience when Steve Harvey initially named Colombia's Ariadna Gutierrez as the winner of Miss Universe in 2015, reacted to the gaffe online. She posted a clip of her Creamsilk commercial of her saying, "And if it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody."

Former Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres commended the cast of La La Land and congratulated the people behind Moonlight.